Apparently popular flavour combos you just don't get

[Hi-ASL]

No it's not.

Unlike ham and pineapple. Or meat and fruit in any combination (I'll grudgingly allow chutney).

I also oppose anything coffee-flavoured (including coffee most of the time), but would like to plead a case for tiramisu. Which is heaven in your mouth (it says here).

I'd also like to ban baked beans + potato in any form. Either have them on toast or not at all.

 

[Madusa]

No it's not.

Unlike ham and pineapple. Or meat and fruit in any combination (I'll grudgingly allow chutney).

I'd agree with the ham and pineapple -tastes like vomit! Although i have to say that parma ham with melon is absolutely gorgeous!

 

[Hi-ASL]

I'm assuming that's main course and dessert.

 

[Madusa]

I'm assuming that's main course and dessert.

Appetiser! Phillistine!

 

[Hi-ASL]

Oh right.

A couple of the posher weddings I've been to have served melon balls. Most refreshing, I have to say. No ham in sight, thankfully, or I would've thrown it at 'em.

 

[wrysmile]

I have a baffling set of policies surrounding food and the mixing of it, which Kyser finds ridiculous. Sweet and savoury things mixed together is a no no - vege salads with fruit in (ie apple - errrgh!), curries with fruit, jams on meat (I'm with you, Stig! ).

Dr Pepper is horrible, in fact, any cherry flavoured thing, other than fresh cherries, are generally awful. Liquor chocolates - wrong!

Actually, I'm stopping now .... b/c I could keep going onandonandonandonandon .... but you'd all get bored pretty quickly

 

[Gromit]

because fake chemical tastes froom unnatrual sources are just what we need in food oh yes if you don't like the mixed cocktal batch of chemicals that's been cooke dup by the lever brothers or glaxosmith kliene you must be repulsed by food...

Dude are you trying to be sarcastic as you ain't much good at it like

Please point out where a said we need more chemically produced food?

I said we need more combos.

Once upon a time we had:
Cheese and onion
Cheese and pickle
Cheese n salad

Any other combo was impossible, unthinkable!

Now thanks to progress we have
Brie and Cramberry (cheese n jam)
Cheese and sundried tomatoes
Cheese and tuna - (USA's influence)

We need to kill off boring combos like salt n vinegar going back to when the world was flat and explore a whole world of new combinations.

 

[Madusa]

no... HI/ASL i think you should try the parma ham/melon combo. Had it the first time ages ago in an italian restaurant as a mate had ordered it. im a bit 'err, meat and fruit =yuk' but tried it and had to order myself a serving cos it was lush. ...think cool, refreshing...meat.

 

[Hi-ASL]

I have a baffling set of policies surrounding food and the mixing of it, which Kyser finds ridiculous. Sweet and savoury things mixed together is a no no - vege salads with fruit in (ie apple - errrgh!), curries with fruit, jams on meat (I'm with you, Stig! ).

Dr Pepper is horrible, in fact, any cherry flavoured thing, other than fresh cherries, are generally awful. Liquor chocolates - wrong!

Actually, I'm stopping now .... b/c I could keep going onandonandonandonandon .... but you'd all get bored pretty quickly

No, keep going, I'm reading avidly. Have to disagree about Dr. Pepper. I wouldn't say it's a favourite - I dislike all super-sugared, syrupy drinks but, when I do drink them, see nothing wrong with a can or two of Dr. P (though my teeth may disagree).

But anyway, you have everything else spot on. I've been trying to educate Madusa about the essential wrongness of mixing sweet and savoury but she's not listening. You try?

no... HI/ASL i think you should try the parma ham/melon combo. Had it the first time ages ago in an italian restaurant as a mate had ordered it. im a bit 'err, meat and fruit =yuk' but tried it and had to order myself a serving cos it was lush. ...think cool, refreshing...meat.

As wrysmile observes it's not really a matter of personal choice - more a personal policy derived from gut instinct. I could no more 'try' it than I could walk barefoot through white-hot coals. Even if I could overcome the mental block and actually get the stuff in my mouth, I'm pretty certain that my body would reject it in spectacular and colourful fashion.

 

[Madusa]

WELL, i dont normally go in for the sweet with savory...BUT, since ive made some exceptions to that rule, i feel that i will in future try other things that 'my gut instinct' once adviced me against. Fair enough if it's not for you, but boy, are you missing out on this one!


try! try! try! try! try! try! try! etc...

 

[longdog]

Why is the english palate so bland?

We need more exiting combo foods not less!!!!!

Exciting maybe.

Disgusting no thanks.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Oh wait:

• Radishes + anything.
• Celery (or its dark, deformed cousin celeriac) + anything.

 

[Skim]

peanut butter & chocolate rules though... the new(ish) peanut butter chunky kit kat is simply divine.

I was a bit disappointed by that. I thought Kit Kat and peanut butter would be a winning combination, but it's nowhere near as nice as Reeces, even though Reeces is made of shonky American chocolate.

 

[spanglechick]

sweet and savoury things are lovely.

particularly savoury, coconutty dishes. yummmm.


when i was a teenager i worked in asdas and i regularly used to pick up a pizza for the family from their 'make your own' counter.

it had:
chicken
ham
sweetcorn
peppers
pineapple
and...
...mandarin segments.

no word of a lie - asda used to have an option for mandarin topped pizza - and my family loved them.

 

[Hi-ASL]

I was a bit disappointed by that. I thought Kit Kat and peanut butter would be a winning combination, but it's nowhere near as nice as Reeces, even though Reeces is made of shonky American chocolate.

The Reeces ones are inifinitely superior. If you eat them in silence and you listen closely, you can actually hear your arteries thickening.

 

[Madusa]

sweet and savoury things are lovely.


it had:
chicken
ham
sweetcorn
peppers
pineapple
and...
...mandarin segments.

no word of a lie - asda used to have an option for mandarin topped pizza - and my family loved them.

um...

*heave*

Im not that converted...

 

[Hi-ASL]

sweet and savoury things are lovely.

particularly savoury, coconutty dishes. yummmm.


when i was a teenager i worked in asdas and i regularly used to pick up a pizza for the family from their 'make your own' counter.

it had:
chicken
ham
sweetcorn
peppers
pineapple
and...
...mandarin segments.

no word of a lie - asda used to have an option for mandarin topped pizza - and my family loved them.

Coconuts perfectly acceptable. It's a nut, probably, so doesn't really fall under 'sweet' at all.

The rest of your post is unnecessary and irredeemably perverted.

 

[catrina]

I hate chocolate and orange flavour with a passion.

Apart from Jaffa Cakes which I really like

Agreed, including jaffa cakes, though, blurgh!

 

[Skim]

The Reeces ones are inifinitely superior. If you eat them in silence and you listen closely, you can actually hear your arteries thickening.

I'd like to try to make my own with some quality ingredients – there's a good crunchy peanut butter that Whole Earth makes, which could then be covered with Lindt or Green & Blacks.

But this looks good in the meantime... a pimped peanut butter Kit Kat

 

[fractionMan]

Sweet and fucking sour. At least the shit you get from the takeaway/ Yeuch.

 

[moonsi til]

Anything coffee or orange flavoured.

Not sure if I get the whole chips n cheese thing

Fruit in curries

 

[longdog]

Sweet and fucking sour. At least the shit you get from the takeaway/ Yeuch.

RASCIST!!!1!!!
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[aqua]

Fruit in curries

fruit in any hot savoury food